Amadou & Mariam Announce Remix Album

Working with Santigold and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner on new album

Amadou & Mariam: "Sabali (Vitalic Remix Radio Edit)":

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The blind, married Malian duo Amadou & Mariam make a joyous, tightly constructed form of Afro-pop that crosses musical borders just as fluidly as it interweaves guitar lines. The duo have admirers from all over the musical map, and many of them show up on Remixes, an album of reworkings (some of them previously unreleased) that arrives December 20 on Nonesuch/Because.

The album's list of contributors is wonderfully random: Nas and Damian Marley, Miike Snow, Akon, Theophilus London, Yuksek, and plenty more. Up above, you can stream the radio edit of bludgeoning French dance producer Vitalic's "Sabali" remix. (It will be up for download on Beatport on December 6.) And below, check out the tracklist.

Amadou & Mariam will open for U2 in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 13 and Cape Town, South Africa on February 18. They're currently working on their new album, which will feature Santigold and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, according to their website.